Video has surfaced from a police shooting in Baltimore and it’s absolutely nuts.
An off-duty police officer is being hailed a hero after fatally shooting a 38-year-old suspect who police say walked into a Baltimore barbershop and shot an employee to death, the Baltimore Sun reported.
The officer, who has not been publicly identified, was getting his hair cut Saturday afternoon when a man, identified by police as 38-year-old Carlos Ortega, walked in and fatally shot the barber.
Video surveillance captured the moment the officer, who was armed and in plain clothes while off duty, quickly jumped to his feet and “with great bravery produced his firearm,” according to Police Commissioner Michael Harrison.
Pulling his gun out, the officer fatally shot Ortega, immediately stopping him from doing any more damage. The police officer was not injured during the exchange.
This is a classic definition of playing stupid games and winning stupid prizes. Ortega allegedly murdered someone right in front of an off-duty cop and his time on this planet ended seconds later. That cop literally just stepped out of the way, drew his weapon, and let him have it.
Watch the video footage below: (Warning: Graphic)
HERO: Off-duty Baltimore police officer shoots and kills gunman that murdered hairdresser.
*WARNING: Graphic* pic.twitter.com/K5hng4wd7v
— Katie Daviscourt (@KatieDaviscourt) November 19, 2021
Ortega was a suspect in two other shootings that took place earlier in the day, and police are working to determine any motives that might link the three shootings. The two earlier shootings left one man dead and another person critically injured.
“We’re processing three different scenes in three parts of the city,” Harrison explained. “While this perpetrator has expired from his injuries, we will still need answers to these questions. … We are working to determine the connectivity, which is a likely connectivity.”
Props to this unnamed officer for stepping out and doing what had to be done. He kept his composure once bullets started flying and eliminated the threat. There’s no doubt he has absolute ice in his veins.
Watch the video report below for more details:
Sources: Taphaps, The Baltimore Sun
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